It’s no stretch to argue that Big Little Lies is one of the biggest TV shows of the year. Bringing together prestigious actors, including Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, and all but sweeping at the 2017 Emmys (essentially confirming its hit status), the show has become a huge talking point this year. Bringing together the lives, dirty laundry and all, of four women, Big Little Lies became a show unafraid to tackle topics like domestic violence and sexual assault; it’s an invaluable show, to be sure.

However, when the show was first in production, not every studio saw its potential the way HBO ostensibly did. According to a new report published by The Hollywood Reporter about Roy Price — the Amazon exec who recently left the company over allegations of sexual harassment — it appears Roy actually passed on Big Little Lies. That’s not unusual, to be fair, but what is totally unusual is the reason he passed: he reportedly did it because Big Little Lies wouldn’t guarantee a great deal of female nudity.

THR reports that “[c]ompany insiders say at a staff holiday party at the Lucky Strike bowling alley in Hollywood, Price asked a group of staffers if the two stars would 'show their tits' and mused aloud why he would greenlight the show if they didn’t. (In fact, Kidman did multiple nude scenes.).” It’s certainly galling to learn that the value of Big Little Lies was, in Price’s opinion, resting solely on whether or not viewers would get to see Nicole naked. Not only is it disheartening, it’s deeply sexist as well.